Audience: City University Academic and Course Office Staff Have you rolled over content and assignments for period 2 modules? Then read on for some tips on setting up assignment submission in Moodle. Assignment types in Moodle There are a number of assignment types in Moodle, so when you rollover your assignments make sure that you…Continue Reading Preparing Assignments for Period 2
On the 27th November, I attended a ‘Student Engagement Conversation’ event hosted by The Student Engagement Partnership (TSEP). TSEP are a joint venture, funded predominantly by the National Union of Students and Higher Education Funding Council for England, as well as the QAA and GuildHE amongst others. The third of a roadshow series of conversation…Continue Reading Principles of Engagement: A Student Engagement Conversation
City University London staff are invited to participate in LEaD‘s annual Educational Technology and Learning Spaces survey (http://goo.gl/5R6aKz). This is your opportunity to feedback on and ultimately influence how educational technology and learning spaces are supported and implemented at City. Our aim is to find out more about the City staff experience of using educational technology and enhancements that…Continue Reading Educational Technology & Learning Spaces Survey
This year, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative organised a two-day web conference about learning spaces: Re-imagining the Learning Space: Design, Technology and Assessment, where Paul Baepler and J. D. Walker, from the Center for Educational Innovation, at the University of Minnesota, presented. The title of their presentation, “Active Learning Classrooms and Social Context: Changing Relationships to Improve…Continue Reading ELI: Learning Space Design, Technology and Assessment
Amara’s law states that “we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. ” Simon Nelson, Chief Executive of FutureLearn speaking at Westminster’s Higher Education Forum on MOOCs and technology-enhanced learning: next steps and challenges highlighted how Amara’s Law could be applied to…Continue Reading Moocs: Next steps and challenges
A driving force in the HE sector at the moment is employability. The Higher Education Academy notes: ‘A common theme across HE policy and funding throughout the UK is the need to ensure that graduates are prepared for, and able to contribute to, the economy and society. The development of graduates with relevant attributes, skills…Continue Reading Students and Agency: How we get employability wrong
EDUCASE Learning Initiative (ELI) hosted a two day series of webinars around Learning Spaces: Re-imagining the Learning Space: Design, Technology and Assessment last month. This article looks at two webinar sessions from the event. Loyola Marymount University, a private US university located in Los Angeles, California presented about their goal is to draft a University…Continue Reading ELI 2014 Online Focus Session: Re-Imagining Learning Spaces – Drafting Master Plans and Designing Teaching Spaces
Can You Run The Mill? Using role play to simulate professional environments, supported by online environments and tools, is providing an active, contextual and sometimes challenging learning experience for learners in the fields of Business, Law and Health Sciences here at City University London. Much inspired by practice in Australian Universities and peers here in…Continue Reading Online Role Play for Learning – Current Practice from City and Beyond – November 2014
The University has new Learning Spaces in the Drysdale Building, one room in particular, ELG12 has unusually shaped tables. These plectrum shaped tables are a new addition to the teaching rooms at the university. They allow for active and collaborative learning due to their shape and are on castors so they can be easily moved…Continue Reading Ideas for using Plectrum Tables in the new Learning Spaces in the Drysdale building for collaborative learning
We are now recruiting participants for the Developing Leadership and Your Reflective Practice module that will run as a double module as part of the MA Academic Practice from January 2015. Increasingly work in the HE sector is characterised by continuous change and uncertainty with high expectations and decreasing resources. Consequently, it is vital for staff…Continue Reading Developing Leadership and Your Reflective Practice